Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni on Wednesday, May 28, blamed the decades-long instability in eastern DR Congo on what he termed as “careless foreign interference” dating back to the era of former ...

In a small ceremony with oversized implications, U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio welcomed his Congolese and Rwandan ...

The biggest beneficiary of the partitioning was King Leopold of Belgium who acquired the entire DR Congo as his personal ... He instead relied on mercenaries and mercenaries rarely fight when ...

These invasions have been military, mercenary, commercial ... First, they partitioned the Congo region with Belgian King Leopold receiving Congo as his personal property. Second, they agreed ...

Since gaining independence from Belgium in 1960, the Democratic Republic of Congo has seen recurrent ... calling for the departure of foreign mercenaries from Africa, Tanzania's President Julius ...

Instead, Belgium has focused all its energy on punishing Rwanda—the country that survived the genocide, not the forces that committed it. “They brought in mercenaries,” Kagame said. “Yes, Europeans.

M23 fighters, backed by Rwanda, continue to advance into eastern DR Congo. While the rebels are ... in Brussels, a Belgian think tank. "Numerous reports have highlighted the disappearance of ...

Their humanity and resilience stand in stark contrast to the relentless suffering foisted upon them - tribulations so profound they rival the horrors inflicted by King Leopold and his Belgian ...